Tribhuvan University curriculum

How Tribhuvan University semesters work

Tribhuvan is by a wide margin Nepal's largest university, and its semester-system programs — engineering under IOE, computing under IOST, and others — each publish their own credit-weighted syllabus. A four-year bachelor's degree runs across eight semesters, and each of those produces a separate SGPA that feeds into a cumulative CGPA at the end.

Because TU programs are delivered through a large network of constituent and affiliated campuses, students often compare notes with friends whose subject lists look slightly different. That is usually a difference of elective choice or syllabus batch rather than an error — the core credit structure is set by the university.

The TU grading scale, and why the year matters

Tribhuvan uses a scale headed by A+ at 4.0, with A at 3.6, B+ at 3.2, B at 2.8, C+ at 2.4, C at 2.0, D+ at 1.6, D at 1.2 and F at 0.0. The gap that catches people out is the one between A+ and A: 0.4 grade points, where Pokhara University's equivalent step is only 0.3. Small per-subject differences like this compound across eight semesters.

TU has also revised its grading and curriculum over the years, so a senior's advice about how grades map to points is not automatically current. gpaNepal applies the 2024 scheme for TU. If your marksheet legend shows something different, trust the marksheet.

Credit hours drive everything

Every subject below lists its credit hours, and those numbers are the weights in your SGPA calculation. Multiply each subject's grade point by its credits, add up the results, divide by total credits — that is the whole formula. It also explains why a strong grade in a one-credit lab barely moves your average while a weak grade in a four-credit core subject is felt for the rest of the degree.

Project and practical components are listed separately where the syllabus credits them separately. Include them; the university does.

Using these lists with the calculator

You do not have to type any of this in by hand. In the calculator, choose Tribhuvan University and then your faculty, and gpaNepal generates every semester on this page with the right subjects and credit hours already filled in. All that is left is entering your grades. Subjects can still be renamed, added or removed afterwards, so an elective that differs from the template is a two-second fix rather than a reason to start over.

Grades are stored in your own browser, never on our servers, so you can keep a running record across your whole degree and export it to CSV or PDF whenever you want a backup. The TU SGPA and CGPA calculator page explains the grading scale in more detail.

A word on accuracy

Curricula get revised. Subject codes change, credit weightings are adjusted, and faculties introduce new electives between batches. The lists here reflect the syllabus versions gpaNepal was built against, and they are a reference rather than an official publication — your college's own syllabus and your marksheet are always the authority. If you spot a subject or credit value that no longer matches yours, tell us at info@kibu.space and we will correct it.

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